KIEV, March 31 - The government's economic development committee approved the proposal suggested by the Economy Ministry to start preparations for a second export development project to be implemented jointly with the World Bank.

KYIV, Feb 28 – Two weeks after it was hit by a drone on February 14, Ukrainian firefighters are still trying to extinguish smouldering fires within the large structure built over the reactor destroyed in the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear accident, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported.

KYIV, Feb 28 – The Ukrainian government will receive a grant from Japan for the implementation of the fourth phase of the Emergency Recovery Program in the amount of $58 million, which will be directed, among other things, to humanitarian demining, energy, water supply, public health and safety, and education, the press service of the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine reported.

KYIV, Feb 28 – The UN has suspended a program to provide assistance to a number of Ukrainian regions due to a reduction in the organization's funding from Washington, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday.

KYIV, March 2 - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a four-point plan to work with Ukraine to end the war and defend the country from Russia, BBC reported Sunday.

WASHINGTON, March 1 - The United States is sounding out close allies about the possibility of imposing new sanctions on China if Beijing provides military support to Russia for its war in Ukraine, Reuters reported Wedensday citing four U.S. officials.

KYIV, Mar 2 – Mayor of the satellite town of Zaporizhia NPP, Energodar, Dmytro Orlov denied the information about the shelling of local residents by the troops of the Russian Federation.

"We refute the information spread on the Internet about the victims of shelling in Energodar. There were no shellings in our city. There were no victims," Orlov wrote on Telegram on Wednesday evening.

KYIV, March 2 - An investigation into possible war crimes in Ukraine has been launched, after Russia was accused of bombing civilians, BBC reported.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor said evidence was being collected on alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

NEW YORK, March 2 - The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in a largely symbolic rebuke to Russian President Vladmir Putin and his supporters that is unlikely to alter the course of the war, The Wall Street Journal reported.

KYIV, March 2 - Russian forces pounded Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with airstrikes in a bid to break the will of the country’s resistance as Moscow’s offensive toward Kyiv stalled amid fierce Ukrainian counterattacks and logistics mishaps.